Unpopular Opinion: "voter suppression" isn't a sufficient explanation when there's record turnout and significantly higher % of non-whites voted for the suppressors than in 2016
Insufficient to explain the higher % of black men and dramatically higher % of Hispanic voters who voted for Trump https://twitter.com/mbyrnes37/status/1324023705467576320
USPS not delivering ballots is criminal

It doesn't explain how a higher # and % of ballots that actually were cast by non-white voters went to Trump https://twitter.com/samantha_smith2/status/1324020802073841666
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Whatever the reason, Dems will end up out of power perennially if they can't figure it out https://twitter.com/tedgstrong/status/1324020457675329536
When the popular vote starts being the method for determining the President, I'll care

But it takes winning elections to amend the Constitution, and it's not like anyone on the left is going to start a successful civil war https://twitter.com/rudeloux/status/1324032643260928000
Based on Kavanaugh's nutty ass concurrence, NPVIC would perfectly fit with his interpretation of the Constitution

But Ds still need to win enough state legislative seats to get to 270 EVs' worth of states adopting it https://twitter.com/jr_kell/status/1324034871300444160
I personally think there are Equal Protection issues with a state choosing electors for someone other than the candidate that wins the particular state

The majority of the current SCOTUS disagrees with me though, so I assume it would be upheld https://twitter.com/omega13ful/status/1324035123210260488
This would impact the %

It doesn't impact the raw #

More black and Hispanic voters picked Trump this time than in 2016. We may not know precisely how many more, but we know 1️⃣ it was more and 2️⃣ it was significant https://twitter.com/aaronfown/status/1324035391322816513
OK

Now how do you explain more black voters – whose ballots were actually cast and counted, regardless of suppression efforts – picking Trump now in 2020 than picking Trump in 2016? https://twitter.com/pdeming123/status/1324038271215693824
I don't. I have no idea. I just know it's not enough to go "voter suppression!" and resume rhythmic chanting about a "coalition of the ascendant" and think that explains it https://twitter.com/lp6801/status/1324040533594038272
Again, I'm not disputing voter suppression. It was pretty obvious weeks ago that the R goal was to make it harder for people to vote

But among the people who voted, a greater # of racial minorities voted for the guy whose party tried to supress them https://twitter.com/delejayn/status/1324044501367869440
Biden's still going to win, so there's not really anyone to "blame"

It doesn't change the erosion among the racially diverse bedrock of the Democratic Party for generations https://twitter.com/mirastyj/status/1324043746208485378
Go back and re-read the rest of the tweet https://twitter.com/simonjester2424/status/1324056543768256515
Not irrelevant when it comes to the Senate, but localized. Not many POCs to blame in Maine for Susan Collins hanging on https://twitter.com/isaac32767/status/1324054241585999873
The number of people in my @'s who are adamant that everything is fine in the D coalition is a sight to behold

Gonna end up with Donald Trump Jr as POTUS in 2024 at this rate...
Big fan, wish more states had it. Would fundamentally reshape how we do elections IMO https://twitter.com/sparkleapplepie/status/1324058688772952064
The takeaway I get from this is that – assuming these people aren't bullsh*tting themselves – Biden could have won Florida if he just helped more people get sick from COVID https://twitter.com/seaneeryan/status/1324059101748408329
To clarify this prior tweet a bit:

➡️ "Trump showed up in Florida. He asked us what our issues are" translates to "Biden needed more super-spreader rallies to convince me I'm seen"

➡️ "and [Trump] addressed them." is just non-factual gibberish https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1324061403410505729
So either these focus group people were entirely serious – and the only way Biden could have gotten their votes was by infecting them with COVID – or they're bullsh*tting themselves about why they voted how they did
I've always been Texas-skeptic though. Figured it would stay R simply from the sheer volume of Rs as baseline https://twitter.com/isaac32767/status/1324066319654821889
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